27 collocations for threshed

And so it proved; for I had not sat long, before I was made willing to express what rested weightily on my mind, and that was the case of Gideon, when the angel appeared to him under the oak as he threshed wheat.

When all the big lads will be hunting the deer, And no one for helping Old Callum comes near, O who will be busy at threshing his corn? Who will come in the night and be going at morn?

If you pay him by the piece, by the quantity of grain which he produces, he will thresh only while the grain comes freely, and, though he leaves a good deal in the ear, it is not worth while to thresh the straw over again; nor can you fix him to do it sufficiently, because it is so difficult to prove how much less a man threshes than he ought to do.

In that six months' time I cut and corded four hundred cords of wood, besides threshing out seventy-five bushels of grain, and received of my wages down only twenty pounds, which left remaining a larger sum.

Before 1825 every farmer in the country threshed his grain with a flail, or by driving cattle over it, or by means of a large wooden roller covered with pegs.

In December when we thresh the rice the bongas carry off half of it; but Ramai could see them and would drive them away and so was able to save his rice.

He must talk with his mother, he must thresh the matter out with her, he must not delay longer to clear the issue.

The Thresher adds to their panic by threshing the water with its terrible tail.

Q.Beginning, then, with the power necessary for threshing,a 4 horse power engine, with cylinder 6 inches diameter, pressure of steam 45 lbs., per square inch, and making 140 revolutions per minute, will thresh out 40 quarters of wheat in 10 hours with a consumption of 3 cwt. of coals.

"We'll be free from interruption there, and can thresh the whole thing out.

And there was a man who had seven grown-up daughters and no son; and at the time of threshing the paddy he had to undergo much hardship because he had no son to work for him; he had to sleep on the threshing floor and to get up very early to let out the cattle; and as the hoar frost lay two inches deep he found it bitterly cold.

It was not that he wanted tohe had fought himself mentally away from that conviction time after time; had threshed over every scintilla of evidence, searching futilely for something which would clear this radiant woman whom he had met but once.

Such was the state of things, the whale still threshing the sea with his flukes, when a cry among his men induced Roswell for a moment to look aside.

I looked about, and saw, between gusts, that we were almost against a huge straw-pile, where some neighbor had threshed a setting of wheat.

She had threshed out the one grain of wheat, the single compact little truth, that she wanted.

" The fiery worms became active, and threshed their way across the fast-chilling and silent plain.

I r'member threshing 'm with it.

There's been a row between Von Blitz and the lawyer, and the lawyer has unmercifully threshed Von Blitz.

For an extra hour, it seems, the post-office has been engaged in threshing out the pure wheaten correspondence of Glasgow, and winnowing it from the chaff of all baser intermediate towns.

Meantime, he worked in the forest, threshed out his little crop of corn, and tended his cattle.

Then what with hurry and bustle to get my bedding and packs, and to thresh my tingling fingers, and press my frozen ears, I was selfishly busy a few minutes before I thought of Romer.

So mother considers the thing as settled at last; but I shall always regard the account as open until I have threshed the gentleman to my heart's content.

An engine snorts to and fro, shunting coal waggons on to the sidingcoal for the traction engines, and to be consumed in threshing out the golden harvest around.

He tells the ploughman that, after confession on Shrove Tuesday, he may go and thresh the fat hen, and if he is blindfold, kill her, and then dine on fritters and pancakes.

I could thresh his old jacket till I made his pension jingle in his pocket.'

27 collocations for  threshed